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The draft State Budget for 2027 (OE2027) sets out changes that will affect the disposable income of Portuguese households, from taxes on wages to social benefits and spending on housing and education. Key measures include a new update of the IRS brackets, an increase in the national minimum wage and a strengthening of some social benefits. On the other hand, tuition fees in higher education are expected to start rising again from the next academic year. In addition, the evolution of prices for essential goods may swallow up part of the tax savings. The draft must still go through the…
‘Tis the season. No, not that season – there are still 11 weeks until Christmas. Not Halloween, either, or even Gilmore Girls-rewatch time. We’re of course referring to the glorious season when all the industry trends reports are released, and the latest travel company to share its predictions is Expedia Group. Pulling on insights from Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, as well as a survey of 26,000 travellers across 16 countries, plus social media data, Unpack ’27 has identified five key travel trends. “Travel is about creating memories, and Unpack ’27 uncovers the destinations and experiences shaping those moments,” said Ariane…
That followed a Sept. 4 seminar at which the Commission’s AI envoy, Siemens chair Jim Hagemann Snabe, told 27 commissioners that the EU should focus less on winning the race to build AI and more on how to use it to turn around the bloc’s productivity, two Commission officials said. The scale of the challenge is clear: At the end of last year, only 1 in 5 European businesses used AI in their activities, with Denmark as the frontrunner (42%) and Romania at the bottom of the pack (5.2%), according to Eurostat. The bloc’s poor showing is mainly because of small and…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 9:12 GMT+2 Pope Leo XIV had a “calm” night after lung surgery, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The pope is recovering at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung on Tuesday. In a statement, the Vatican said the surgery had been “successfully completed, as planned and within the expected timeframe,” adding that the pope had returned to his room on the hospital’s tenth floor, in a ward next to the papal apartment where Pope Francis was hospitalised a year and a half ago. The 71-year-old pope underwent the…
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Oil prices climbed on Wednesday after Iran reportedly attacked two vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, using new tactics to target shipping, Reuters reported. Elsewhere, the escalating conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia posed a further risk to crude supplies. Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that an attack on an Aramco building in the kingdom’s east sparked a “limited fire” and that debris from intercepted Houthi missiles wounded four people in the capital Riyadh. International benchmark Brent crude futures were up 0.5% at $106.24 a barrel early on Wednesday morning in Europe, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures…
Portugal is often considered one of the most welcoming and hospitable countries in the world, with international studies and surveys repeatedly placing the Portuguese people at the top of tourists’ favourites. It is therefore no surprise that Porto has been awarded the title of “Europe’s friendliest city”. The distinction comes from readers of Condé Nast Traveller in the Readers’ Choice Awards 2026, which also place the city of Lisbon in second position in this category. The vote aims to identify cities where “hospitality is at its warmest” and “you find locals eager to help, whether you’re trying to make sense…
“At this point we are not representing just Shakhtar Donetsk. We are representing the whole country,” said Palkin, ahead of four matches in London this fall and winter. “For us, it’s also to support Ukrainian people who left their homes and moved to London, to England. And therefore, these games completely change context. It’s very important every time to send messages to support Ukraine.” Shakhtar’s survival among Europe’s elite is emblematic of Ukraine’s own endurance against Moscow’s bombardment. Forced out of Donetsk in 2014, the club has spent more than a decade moving between temporary host cities while keeping its…
Published on 13/10/2026 – 11:23 GMT+2•Updated 11:23 The leaders of Germany, Italy and Belgium have called for a mechanism to halt new EU legislation deemed excessively burdensome for businesses, as part of a broader push to strengthen the bloc’s economic competitiveness. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever have proposed an “emergency brake” in a letter sent on Monday to European Council President António Costa, seen by Euronews. The proposed mechanism would act as “a last resort and additional safeguard” against unnecessary bureaucratic costs stemming from new EU laws. Its modalities…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2 On today’s show: Maria Tadeo speaks exclusively to Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum about the pressures on Spain: the war in Ukraine, the housing crisis, the uncertainty of snap elections and renewed tension with Morocco over Ceuta. Angela Skujins discusses the drone strikes that hit two commercial vessels off Bulgaria’s coast yesterday morning, the latest in a string of attacks on ships navigating the Black Sea, which is becomingthe next theatre of Russian aggression. Interview with Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s International Trade…